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<h2 id="features">Features</h2> <p>Virt-manager allows users to: </p> <ul><li>create, edit, start and stop VMs</li> <li>view and control each VM's console</li> <li>see performance and utilization statistics for each VM</li> <li>view all running VMs and hosts, and their live performance or resource utilization statistics.</li> <li>use <a href="/facts/Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine/d6eSuTuK">KVM</a>, <a href="/facts/Xen/U5fq6ESl">Xen</a> or <a href="/facts/QEMU/s6utqULJ">QEMU</a> virtual machines, running either locally or remotely.</li> <li>use <a href="/facts/LXC/gmfT31xS">LXC</a> <a href="/facts/Operating-system-level_virtualization/gkLoCrgN">containers</a></li></ul> <p>Support for <a href="/facts/FreeBSD/RKsFTm7F">FreeBSD's</a> <a href="/facts/Bhyve/mCm8pV39">bhyve</a> hypervisor has been included since 2014, though it remains disabled by default.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="distributions-including-virtual-machine-manager">Distributions including Virtual Machine Manager</h2> <p>Virtual Machine Manager comes as the virt-manager package in: </p> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Arch_Linux/MTFCkLqH">Arch Linux</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/CentOS/FGGc2cIx">CentOS</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Debian/cBd93qfJ">Debian</a> (since lenny)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Fedora_(operating_system)/LJ2ocge5">Fedora</a> (since version 6)</li> <li><a href="/facts/FreeBSD/RKsFTm7F">FreeBSD</a> (via <a href="/facts/Ports_collection/X7NjT4F5">Ports collection</a>)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Frugalware/c7jjQdy3">Frugalware</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Gentoo_Linux/zX81Cqs8">Gentoo</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Mandriva_Linux/bTW1XbAp">Mandriva Linux</a> (since release 2007.1)</li> <li><a href="/facts/MXLinux/PTxwb6YE">MXLinux</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/NetBSD/PTm5HWls">NetBSD</a> (via <a href="/facts/Pkgsrc/pY0HneXM">pkgsrc</a>)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/NixOS/lDoDpNXz">NixOS</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/OpenBSD/xmPS9tek">OpenBSD</a> (via <a href="/facts/Ports_collection/X7NjT4F5">Ports collection</a>)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/OpenSUSE/mFzGMY3z">openSUSE</a> (since release 10.3)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6Cekx2ed">Red Hat Enterprise Linux</a> (versions 5 through 7 only)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Scientific_Linux/HqNBSblf">Scientific Linux</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Trisquel/azgaRbbz">Trisquel</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/TrueOS/L0MmoVcz">TrueOS</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Ubuntu_(operating_system)/0WDd7hkb">Ubuntu</a> (version 8.04 and above)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Void_Linux/3hUU3Ezy">Void Linux</a></li></ul> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Libvirt/9YwAkRsr">libvirt</a>, the API used by Virtual Machine Manager to create and manage virtual machines</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://virt-manager.org">Official website</a> </li></ul> Wikimedia Commons has media related to Virtual Machine Manager. <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Siever, Ellen; Figgins, Stephen; Love, Robert; Robbins, Arnold (2009-09-22). Linux in a Nutshell (6 ed.). O'Reilly. p. 850. ISBN 978-0-596-15448-6. [...] the Red Hat Virtual Machine Manager application [...] is a collection of tools built using libvirt. This includes a few command-line tools as well as the GUI virt-manager application. <a href="978-0-596-15448-6" target="_blank">978-0-596-15448-6</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Add bhyve support". Anzwix. 11 April 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2014. <a href="http://anzwix.com/a/virt-manager/AddBhyveSupport" target="_blank">http://anzwix.com/a/virt-manager/AddBhyveSupport</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"virt-manager 4.1.0-2 (any)". Arch Linux. 19 May 2023. Retrieved 13 November 2023. <a href="https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/virt-manager/" target="_blank">https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/virt-manager/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"deskutils/virt-manager". FreshPorts. Jan 2018. Retrieved 31 January 2018. <a href="https://www.freshports.org/deskutils/virt-manager/" target="_blank">https://www.freshports.org/deskutils/virt-manager/</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"sysutils/virt-manager". The NetBSD Packages Collection. May 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2014. <a href="http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/sysutils/virt-manager/README.html" target="_blank">http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/sysutils/virt-manager/README.html</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"sysutils/virt-manager". OpenBSD CVSweb. Nov 2015. Retrieved 9 November 2015. <a href="http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/sysutils/virt-manager/" target="_blank">http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/sysutils/virt-manager/</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>